Charles bange



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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CON CERN:

Bc it known that I, CHARLES BANGE, of St. Louis, in the county of St. Louis, and State of- Missouri, have invented a new and useful Improved Clothes-Driel, of which the following is a full, clear, and 'exact description, reference being had to the annexed drawing, making a part of this specioation, in which- Figure 1 represents a vertical sectional elevation of my invention.

Figure 2 represent-s atop View of a. detached portion of same.

Similnrilctters indicate like parts. l

It consists of a framework, formed of three uprights, A A A, iig. 1; Al not being shown, rising from a broad base, B; A A being connected at-th'e`top by the cross-piece C, while A curves so as to connect with C and from a brace. A cylinder, D, figs. 1,2, of convenient size, is fixed firmly to the base, B, between the uprights; a shaft, a, gs. 1, 2, having its bearingsiu the bottom of 'the cylinder, and in the cross-pieceA C, by means of the collar c, and three chains, d cZ' d, iig. 2. :Z eZ', iig. 1, attached -to it, support a smaller cylinder, E, hanging in the cylinde'i` D, and having the shaft a pass through its bottom, as shown. A horizontal` shaft, z, having its bearings in A A', has on one end a ily-wheel, F, and on the other a spur-wheel, H,'gearing with the pinion K, on a horizontal shaft, m, having its bearings in the uprights n o, and on its other end abevclled friction-wheel, 2;, engaging with the bevel-friction wheel Z1, on the upper end of the vertical shaft a.

The sides of the cylinder E are pierced with numerous holes, asl shown in iig. 1, and around the shaft a is arranged a framework consisting of numerous uprights, 1, 2, 3, Ste., having one end fastened to the bottom of E, while the other is connected with the hoop s, figs. 1, 2; this framework serving to divide the cylinder E into two parts. i

The wet clothes 'being placed in the cylinder E, outside of the framework, by turning the crank yw, the cylinder is made to revolve rapidly, which, causing a partial vacuurn,the pressure of the atmosphere forces the water from the clothes, throagh the openings in E into D, whence it escapes through a suitable outlet into the vessel placed to receive it. The space inside the framework being entirely empty, the air has free access to the sides as well as the top of the articles iu the cylinder. Y

By this machine the n'est as well as the coarsest articles may be dried without the slightest injury, since nothing but the air acts upon them, there being no squeezing, wringing, or any of the other injurious operations to which clothes are subjected in other machines. 'This process does not, of course, completely dry the clothes, but it greatly facilitates their complete drying by expressing nearly all the moisture.

I am well aware that centrifugal dricrs have been used before, therefore I do not claim to be the invento of this method of drying clothes; but

What I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- 'lhe fixed cylinder D, revolving perforated cylinder E, uprights'l, 2, 3, v4t, &c., hoop s, chains d el d, and

collar c, all in combination with the wheels I-I, ILP, 6,'and F, and their respective shafts, when arranged in relation to each other and the framework of thc machine, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

' i y CHARLES BANGE. Witnesses:

SAML. S. Born, JOHN R. SHEPLEY, 

